Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in a new year message has outlined various achievements of the Akufo-Addo led administration.
“We promised Free SHS to reduce the hardship on parents and we have delivered. We promised to restore teacher training allowances to reduce the hardship on teacher trainees and we have delivered . . . we promised to establish an Office of the Special Prosecutor on Corruption and we have delivered. We promised to revive Ghana’s railways and we are on course. We promised a transparent allocation of Ghana’s oil blocs and we have delivered. We promised to reverse the trend of declining economic growth and we have delivered,” he touted.
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Dear friends,
As we come to the end of 2018, we have to thank God for all his mercies. We are thankful for what God has made possible for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo and the NPP to accomplish during our first two years in office. In particular:
• We promised Free SHS to reduce the hardship on parents and we have delivered.
• We promised to restore teacher training allowances to reduce the hardship on teacher trainees and we have delivered.
• We promised to restore nursing training allowances to reduce the hardship on nursing trainees and we have delivered.
• We promised to establish a Zongo Development Fund and we have delivered.
• We promised a renewed focus on agriculture through the Planting For Food and Jobs program and we have delivered.
• We promised to issue National ID Cards and we are delivering.
• We promised to implement a National Property Digital Address System and we have delivered.
• We promised to digitise the clearance of goods at the ports through paperless ports and we have delivered.
• We promised to establish three Development Authorities (Northern, Middle Belt and Coastal) and we have delivered.
• We promised a One District One Factory program and we are delivering.
• We promised a One Village One Dam program and we are delivering.
• We promised a One District One Warehouse program and we are delivering.
• We promised to implement a Nation Builders Corps program to reduce the hardships on the graduate unemployed and we have delivered
• We promised to implement a National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program to provide support and reduce hardships of entrepreneurs and we have delivered
• We promised to rehabilitate VALCO to resume operations and we have delivered.
• We promised to leverage our natural resources to obtain a $2 billion innovative infrastructure financing arrangement with Sinohydro and we have delivered.
• We promised to establish integrated bauxite and aluminium industry and we are delivering
• We promised to implement mobile money interoperability and we have delivered.
• We promised to reduce electricity prices and we have delivered.
• We promised to reduce the hardship in obtaining a drivers license and we have delivered.
• We promised to reduce the hardship in obtaining a passport and we have delivered
• We promised to reduce the hardships in renewing the national health insurance and we have delivered.
• We promised to establish an Office of the Special Prosecutor on Corruption and we have delivered.
• We promised to revive Ghana’s railways and we are on course.
• We promised a transparent allocation of Ghana’s oil blocs and we have delivered.
• We promised to reverse the trend of declining economic growth and we have delivered.
• We promised to restore discipline in the management of our public finances and we have delivered with lower fiscal deficits.
• We promised to pass a fiscal Responsibility Act and we have delivered.
• We promised to establish a Fiscal Council and we have delivered.
• We promised to Establish a Financial Stability Council and we have delivered
• We promised to reduce inflation to single digits and we have delivered.
• We promised to reduce interest rates and we are delivering.
• We promised to keep our exchange rate relatively stable even in the midst of global volatilities and we have delivered.
• We promised to reverse Ghana’s trade position with the rest of the world from deficit to surplus and we have delivered.
• We promised to reduce taxes and we reduced and abolished 17 different taxes in two years. We have delivered.
• We promised to revive the NHIS and we have cleared the GHC1.2 billion
arrears inherited under the NHIS. The NHIS is working again. We have delivered.
• We promised to move away from a predominance of sole sourcing to tendering in procurement and we have delivered.
• We promised to bring about a change from destructive galamsey activities to a more regulated small scale mining activities and we have delivered.
• We promised to reduce the hardships of the disabled and increase the share of the DACF to persons with disabilities by 50%. We have delivered.
• We promised to double the Capitation Grant and we have delivered.
• We promised to create six new regions and we have delivered.
It has been two years of hard but fruitful work for the people of Ghana. We thank God for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo!!!
It has been an honour for me Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to serve as his Vice-President.
We look forward to a blossoming 2019.
Happy New Year in advance.
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You must be out of your mind. Has anyone told you to give birth like the dogg? In any case, is the free shs being paid from nana addo's pocke? Is it not our own taxes that are being used to our benefits? Are all Ghanaians even benefiting from the free shs program? There so many parents whose wards have either completed school are parents themselves. How do you situate that? What a good government will do is to rather translate the money of shs into creating jobs for the unemployed youth who are idling after completing university. Or betterstill increase the salaries of parents who working to enable them be able to decide the best education to offer their children. Not this bogus program which parents have ended up paying extra in food and hostels for their wards because they wouldn't want them be bitten by bed bugs and also be malnourished. They end up paying more for extra classes because they quality of lessons being offered is appalling.
Those of you criticizing Bawumia had never been a parent. You will appreciate the works of this government if you were cough ghs4,000 for 2 children to go to SHS. And suddenly there is free education and you dont need to foot the bill. Look, truth be told; whatever hardship iro of exchange rate fluctuation or increase in fuel prices would have been worse if incompetent Mahama were to be in power. Look today; there is abundant of local foods - unless your taste is fried rice and indomin etc. Food is considerably cheaper now than Mahama's time!!!
Ghana has two vice presidents: 1, actual vice president who doing the work is Osarfo marfo and 2, vice president on paper is bawuliar.. Unfortunately the second vice president is the president's personal propaganda secretary. Ghanaians should not be surprised with even 100 achievements because that is what he is paid to propagate to the good people of Ghana. Also I am surprised he did not mention the weak fundamentals when the cedi is depreciating. Mr PHD and know all why cant you explain to the people who voted for you the reason why cedi is going down as compared to the dollar inspite of more oil revenue to the government and free SHS. and your so called social intervention. Maybe the teacher who taught me arithmetics died very young.
PLEASE TELL US MORE OF THIS EVERY MONTH SO THAT GHANAIANS WILL KNOW THE HARDWORKING OF THIS GOVERNMENT HAS YIELDED DIVIDENDS, ITS YIELDING DIVIDENDS AND WILL PAY-OFF BIG TIME IN THE POCKETS OF THE ORDINARY GHANAIANS SOON,
The best achievement bawumiah forgot to mention is the appointment of his nigerian father in law as ghana ambassador to middle east because he is more qualified and understand the culture more than any other moslem in ghana and npp. Yet the idioots members of npp thought it was right. A northerner will always be a northerner whether phd or a chancelor
This is the best Government Ghana has ever had in our entire history as a nation.. We thank God brainy individuals and competent persons are now are at the helm of affairs..
@Gege and Papa Jay. Like a comment I read somewhere, " I wonder how God grouped people like you together into one party" surely the 8th wonder of the world.
@Papa Jay: You don’t have to be directly affected by a certain policy of the government before you know that the country is doing well, else there wouldn’t be any poverty and homelessness in the advanced countries. The question is, 1.is the NPP government fulfilling its promises? Are the policy directions yielding the desired results? 3.Are there deliberate efforts at enabling private businesses, which are the engine of growth to create ‘GENUINE’ businesses capable of sustaining themselves and employments? And, 4. Are there any working social interventions for the citizenry? You may not answer yes to any of the questions based on your biased political stance, but I tell you every fair-minded Ghanaian will answer yes to all the questions. This NPP government is on track and their policies are the only way to develop this nation to minimize the mass exodus of our able people from seeking greener pastures in non-existence jobs in somebody’s country.
Mr. COLLAPSE is at it again. Since he came to office he has deviated from his usual economic lectures to explain to Ghanaians why they are still suffering under so called his competent government when the most incompetent government of the NDC has been booted out of office for two years. All he does nowadays is to keep itemizing bogus achievements that has not brought any improvement in the lives of Ghanaians. I remember the songs he was singing in opposition, artisans are suffering, children are suffering, parents are suffering, nana addo is suffering, drivers are suffering, barwumia is suffering, doctors are suffering, teachers are suffering, pastors are suffering, congregation is suffering. Woyome,woyome, woyome woyome gangantuan wonkyendzi. Not forgetting saying the ndc was practicing voodoooo economics. Interesting times. God is sooooo good he doesn't strike so quick. His collapse was a warning but he doesn't seem to have repented, the next time may not be wonderful.